Saturday, September 12, 2015

I was looking through some of my project folders recently and realized that I had very nearly finished another hat for Fantasy Faire, but had never gotten around to releasing it! So in this long sea of inactivity, here's a little island of distraction for you to enjoy.

The "Roberts" leather tricorn is a hat for the most dreaded of pirates. Or those that simply want a durable and utilitarian hat that's stylish and rugged. It comes in a variety of tones, from raw leather to dark tanned and of course the usual black and white, and it also works with the Octopoda pin.

You can find it out now at my (not so temporary at this point) store on The Twilight

Saturday, April 25, 2015

When I look at my store I realize there are themes that I always revisit. I love masks, I love hats, I love jewelry and I love piratey things. Most of these things have seen some love from me in mesh, but as you well know, one of these things has seen a glaring omission. It was about time for another round of awesome pirate hats.

"Chauncey" is a highly customizable felt tricorner hat with elegant ruffled trim and cording. Both the ruffles and the cording can be set to invisible, so you can have just the plain felt hat, or a felt hat with cording and no ruffles or whatever configuration you like. There are twelve felt hat colors, as well as eleven satin ruffle colors that match the felt and four trim colors (gold, silver, black, and white).

However, I think it needs a bit more flair...

Octopoda is the perfect pirate's accessory. It's the result of many hours of delicate detail work which was honestly really fun. I loved modeling the curling tentacles, the delicate baroque frame, all of the designing and modeling went really smoothly for it and it's been a very long time since something was this fun to work on. I think you can see it in just how detailed it is, if you scale it up to some ridiculous size only then do you see all of the work I put into it. Even small, though, it makes a perfect pendant for a pirate. It also comes with a brooch option, which by default fits to your tricorn, but you can put on your chest if you'd rather have it there. It comes in my usual selection of six different metal textures (bronze, gold, copper, and sterling, antiqued, and tarnished silver).

A while ago I needed a break from working on architecture, so I went for something fun, inspired by classical Elven jewelry you see in movies like Lord of the Rings and in all sorts of fantasy art. I was aiming for that lovely cross between Elven and Celtic, using my favorite thing of course: swirls.

I wasn't sure at the time if I was going to add anything to it, a headpiece or earrings or something, but I could sit on it for potentially months while wondering what to add to it. So, I might as well just release it for Fantasy Faire and let folks enjoy it while I wonder those things.

Silumira, since I'm a nerd and actually looked this up, means "shining stone" in Quenya, the Elvish language of LotR. Sort of. I looked up the words for "shining" and "stone" and put them together. I don't know, I don't speak Quenya.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

I know it's been a while, but I'm alive and still been working on the new sim off-and-on. I won't go into details but there was a lot of RL stuff that made working impossible or incredibly slow. But I knew I couldn't miss Fantasy Faire, so in the month or so leading up to Fantasy Faire I got a chance to do some work on something other than architecture.

Illusions can be found on the magical Ichi-go Ichi-e sim, built and sponsored by the talented folks behind The Looking Glass. For the most part, there are familiar items out, however, there are and will be a few new things up.

For Relay For Life, I decided to put up a couple of masks that were formerly event exclusives to my Unseelie Ball and Luminous Masquerade. I hope no one has any objections, since it's for charity and will only be available for the duration of Fantasy Faire.

The Lunaria mask has a tintable glow layer that allows you to customize it, and both masks are unisex and able to be stretched and fit to your avi's face whether you're male or female. They're unscripted, but modifiable.

There's also something new out at the faire right now, but I'll cover that in another blog post.

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